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. >> you often either to people they air ethnicity, you refer totty italian or english writer ore israeli woman who you sat next to it's this clinton dinner. why do you do that? >> well, you want to identify people. i mean, it is where they came from. who a that are. we're creatures of our experience. i would talk about malcolm muggerage, another great writer who had a strong influence on me and i would call him the british -- the british historian, martin gilbert or paul johnson, these are all my friends, and, it is important to tell you where they come from and i would point out in thinking about the modern world, i'm at times reminded of how much the english speaking people have in common and how much george washington owed the english and how much he got from the english and how much he elaborated on and extended english values with a great american twist. and he made america... england was part of him and america and the american frontier were all part of him. so i think it is all part of what a good writer does. he talks about people and talks about where they are from. >> this is b
. >> you often either to people they air ethnicity, you refer totty italian or english writer ore israeli woman who you sat next to it's this clinton dinner. why do you do that? >> well, you want to identify people. i mean, it is where they came from. who a that are. we're creatures of our experience. i would talk about malcolm muggerage, another great writer who had a strong influence on me and i would call him the british -- the british historian, martin gilbert or paul johnson,...
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both from the nuclear question and generally comes from the israelis who are prepared to do anything to preserve their own nuclear monopoly. that is what that particular issue is about. and the failure of this illustration that to break with those policies is not all that surprising. the teaching four weeks and it champagne and i saw a young fresh face man running for the senate called barack obama. i was at one house and they said he is the great hope of the democrats. i said let's watch him because i am always interested in the great
both from the nuclear question and generally comes from the israelis who are prepared to do anything to preserve their own nuclear monopoly. that is what that particular issue is about. and the failure of this illustration that to break with those policies is not all that surprising. the teaching four weeks and it champagne and i saw a young fresh face man running for the senate called barack obama. i was at one house and they said he is the great hope of the democrats. i said let's watch him...
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the evening and for the middle of the evening the president wanted to have his picture taken with the israeli woman i was with. he didn't realize she was with me. we had our pictures taken and i went over and sat down at a table made of his aides, his top political aides and various other people and no one bothered to ask me who i was or what i was doing their. i was with this is really one. they didn't recognize me. at one very interesting -- very tense moment, intense for me, i was closer to the president a few minutes before i was sitting at the table, frankly i was wondering when the health of arkansas state police were going to tear me out or the secret service or something like that so i am sitting there and listening to all of this, greatest president ever, our last elected president and all of this kind of nonsense. i was getting a little giddy and this woman sitting next to me was from dublin, ireland, and she and i knew various people. she didn't know who i was. she asked me where do you come from? are set i am from washington. she said you are from washington? most of these people
the evening and for the middle of the evening the president wanted to have his picture taken with the israeli woman i was with. he didn't realize she was with me. we had our pictures taken and i went over and sat down at a table made of his aides, his top political aides and various other people and no one bothered to ask me who i was or what i was doing their. i was with this is really one. they didn't recognize me. at one very interesting -- very tense moment, intense for me, i was closer to...
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the topic, begin in the winter of 2001 in jerusalem, i was conducting a research project on the way israeli team -- teenagers perceive the holocaust, their knowledge of the holocaust, and in the winter i was in the home of one teenager. her name, shelley, a 16 year old. and i can vividly remember that moment when we were talking about the horrors of the holocaust and she was describing the experience of her family, much of it murdered during this event. her father were sitting by her. he literally was born on the rebel of the warsaw ghetto. and as she was talking i pulled out this photo, and i placed it on the table. what happened next was extremely surprising eric she smiled. and she began to giggle. and then she pointed at the little boy and she said, you know, he's a relative of mine. he lives in new york. and the punchline was, do you want his phone number? [laughter] you can imagine my face at that moment. now, i would hear that story time and time again in the years that were to come. i heard it from other students. i heard from officials. i heard from professors in university i heard
the topic, begin in the winter of 2001 in jerusalem, i was conducting a research project on the way israeli team -- teenagers perceive the holocaust, their knowledge of the holocaust, and in the winter i was in the home of one teenager. her name, shelley, a 16 year old. and i can vividly remember that moment when we were talking about the horrors of the holocaust and she was describing the experience of her family, much of it murdered during this event. her father were sitting by her. he...
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the photo is published in an israeli newspaper and a father who lost both of his children in the ghetto sees the photo and he's convinced that this photo is a photo of his two children. and he has no photo compare it to. only 15 years later is he able to locate a photo and he comes to the reporter and says don't they look the same? and for him that photo is those two children and it identifies in the hands of the little girl the doll that he gave her for her birth day. and 15 years later, he still comes back with remorse because he believes his children survived until the revolt in april of '43 when he actually lost them in '42 and he's convicted he neglected them for eight months in the ghetto. i believe he saw his children but these were not factually his children. >> so you're saying basically all of the claims for being the boy are people who thought they knew the boy were genuine and honest? >> they were genuinely honest. there's no doubt about it. but the likelihood of this child surviving is less than i would say 2 or 3%. the number of juice in poland that were killed exceeds the
the photo is published in an israeli newspaper and a father who lost both of his children in the ghetto sees the photo and he's convinced that this photo is a photo of his two children. and he has no photo compare it to. only 15 years later is he able to locate a photo and he comes to the reporter and says don't they look the same? and for him that photo is those two children and it identifies in the hands of the little girl the doll that he gave her for her birth day. and 15 years later, he...
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you have a stagnant regimes in saudi arabia and egypt and jordan are collaborating with americans and israelis and causing him legitimacy. they couldn't played the nationalist parceled on a mac, but they had to undermine his last and hamas also, so they played the shia card. they're going to convert to shia sound. persians will come and take over the sunni world and the saudi's controlled the production of culture and media in the arab world unfortunately. they've been working very hard on spreading the fear that she has throughout the arab world. lebanon was successful to that because they had a very strong shia military force and hezbollah and the sunni population that last as prime minister billionaire to corrupt rafik hariri in the sunni population feel very weak. you had al qaeda ties from iraq who are basically in 2006, 2007, beginning to come in lebanon and take advantage of the weak state and palestinian camps and the lack of law and order but they are in the same themselves in lebanon. and you had different groups in lebanon, sun sponsored by saudi arabia trying to take advantage of a
you have a stagnant regimes in saudi arabia and egypt and jordan are collaborating with americans and israelis and causing him legitimacy. they couldn't played the nationalist parceled on a mac, but they had to undermine his last and hamas also, so they played the shia card. they're going to convert to shia sound. persians will come and take over the sunni world and the saudi's controlled the production of culture and media in the arab world unfortunately. they've been working very hard on...
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history of the holocaust has been raised a very high levels mainly buy german historians but also by israelis and americans. this has been tremendously important but there are applications to the holocaust the first is language based upon germans are sins which can get you far if what you're trying to do is understand german decision-making. you can still go further if you have languages and eastern europe, but german language sources of help very much with the victim's whether jewish or non-jewish. 97% of the jews killed in the holocaust did not know german. even concerned with the victims and then there were less likely to speak german most of the polish and ukraine victims left behind traces but not in the german language with few exceptions. the second limitation it tends to take the perspective to begin the story and extend our words rapidly into eastern europe the most important history of the holocaust but most important, most histories that are widely read do not give on a strong sense of what type of a society in ukraine and belarus or poland was or what sorts of jews live in those p
history of the holocaust has been raised a very high levels mainly buy german historians but also by israelis and americans. this has been tremendously important but there are applications to the holocaust the first is language based upon germans are sins which can get you far if what you're trying to do is understand german decision-making. you can still go further if you have languages and eastern europe, but german language sources of help very much with the victim's whether jewish or...
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carter brokered a durable peace agreement between the egyptians and the israelis that has lasted over three decades that no other president has been able to replicate. when push came to shove carter could play politics quite well on foreign policy as with domestic policy. building support for the ratification of the panama canal treaty in 1978. carter obliged senators to panama so they could be lobbied by military leaders, local residents and business leaders on the importance of the treaty. he addressed audiences in key states and local communities to build pressure using state of the art town hall meeting technology and remote telephone connections and exploited divisions among conservatives on this issue. it is easy to forget that carter scored big victories in his first two years after his first hundred days. he had approval ratings approaching 69%. washington post columnist joseph kraft reported republicans and independents like him as well as democrats do. the biggest problem for carter was he didn't enjoy being a party leader. this is a major theme that i explore in the book. l
carter brokered a durable peace agreement between the egyptians and the israelis that has lasted over three decades that no other president has been able to replicate. when push came to shove carter could play politics quite well on foreign policy as with domestic policy. building support for the ratification of the panama canal treaty in 1978. carter obliged senators to panama so they could be lobbied by military leaders, local residents and business leaders on the importance of the treaty. he...
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, you know, i talk to israeli academics who, you know, are in their personal lives today most israelis are doing well, the economy is booming, you know, the israel of tel aviv is driven by the high-tech industry. you know, people are well educated, they are doing well, in their personal lives, when you ask them about the long-term future and viability of the state, they sometimes give you shocking answers about, well, i don't know whether my grandchildren will be able to live here. because of the demographic problem and, you know, i'm astonished, you know, today in israel among israeli citizens, 25% of all first graders come from either orthodox, or national ultra orthodox families. and many of them, of course, are living in jerusalem. but yet another 25% of all israeli citizen first graders, when i'm talking about the west bank or gaza, 25% of israeli are muslim christian or palestinians. the next generation we are headed towards a demographic cliff that is very dangerous politically. now is the time for a two-state solution. and i think benny is right. even people like netanyahu see
, you know, i talk to israeli academics who, you know, are in their personal lives today most israelis are doing well, the economy is booming, you know, the israel of tel aviv is driven by the high-tech industry. you know, people are well educated, they are doing well, in their personal lives, when you ask them about the long-term future and viability of the state, they sometimes give you shocking answers about, well, i don't know whether my grandchildren will be able to live here. because of...
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there's a certain amount of knowledge but not very much about the israeli nuclear arsenal. i've seen estimates that differ by as much as 90 weapons -- 80 weapons, 300 weapons. it's pretty clear they've worked on boosting. i think that's why they made tritium, what else? yeah, thank you. sir, they'll bring the mic. >> there's another corollary to the one you were talking about, and that's also overwhelming conventional superiority causes of immense value to a country who doesn't have the money to counter that to get a nuclear weapon. so we're in kind of a quandary here in the u.s. where we have overwhelming conventional superiority, and that is a road block too, doesn't it? >> i'm sure you're aware that the united states would be relative ri even -- relatively even more dominant in a non-nuclear world than we are now. one of the things that is a threat, of course, to the united states even from be a small country would be nuclear weapons. but that's not at all true when we're talking about conventional weapons. so it seems clear to me as i've tried to think about how you mov
there's a certain amount of knowledge but not very much about the israeli nuclear arsenal. i've seen estimates that differ by as much as 90 weapons -- 80 weapons, 300 weapons. it's pretty clear they've worked on boosting. i think that's why they made tritium, what else? yeah, thank you. sir, they'll bring the mic. >> there's another corollary to the one you were talking about, and that's also overwhelming conventional superiority causes of immense value to a country who doesn't have the...
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the issues were absorbed into israeli society immediately, but as you all know, who is running the israeli government today? one way or the other in many instances jews who came from arab countries. so they were not marginalize, there were not left to die on the sand. so this is a historic truth. you must to acknowledge what happened to a million jews. in the middle class and the upper class issue in the establishment of our class were expelled. a second question comes from miami, submitted by e-mail. let's see. it talks about in light of what you have discovered about the muslim catholic alliance that murdered tens and tens of jews and serbians and many muslims died at their hands, how did this relate to our understanding of recent international offense involving kosovo? well, i can't tell you how complicated yugoslavia is. i can tell you how many partial countries, temporary countries, territories, kosovo, bosnia, albania, they all came and went. the differing alliance to kill each other. the catholics at one point decided that all of the muslims were going to be on larry catholics or ho
the issues were absorbed into israeli society immediately, but as you all know, who is running the israeli government today? one way or the other in many instances jews who came from arab countries. so they were not marginalize, there were not left to die on the sand. so this is a historic truth. you must to acknowledge what happened to a million jews. in the middle class and the upper class issue in the establishment of our class were expelled. a second question comes from miami, submitted by...
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he was a vivid reader, and he could talk about the discourses of israelis, the causes of war, he had become an intellectual in the 40s years from the time he won the championship. he stopped studying chess and studied other things which is very interesting, so my specific approach in the book was to show very specifically how bobby became good read this book, and maybe you'll become good too. i don't know about that, possibly it can help, maybe inspire you. there are no diagrams here, but it may inspire you to become good like he did. i wanted to show that, and i think i have. the hours of practice, how he did it, how he analyzed it, and so forth. i also showed the difficulties he had. he came from a poor family. his mother, i wouldn't say -- well when bobby was born, she was homeless, and they had to live in hospice, then a trailer, and then they finally moved to manhattan and then to brooklyn in a small little, you know, walk up apartment for $56 a month. he never had government support like the soviets did. soviets got their country retreats, salaries. they could do anything they
he was a vivid reader, and he could talk about the discourses of israelis, the causes of war, he had become an intellectual in the 40s years from the time he won the championship. he stopped studying chess and studied other things which is very interesting, so my specific approach in the book was to show very specifically how bobby became good read this book, and maybe you'll become good too. i don't know about that, possibly it can help, maybe inspire you. there are no diagrams here, but it...
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and with the israelis' tactics and would very much like to impose upon the israelis some final settlement with the palestinians even if it's one that's more on the palestinians' terms. >> wait a second -- >> after all, europe, europe needs oil. >> uh-huh. >> and guess where a lot of the oil that -- [inaudible] europe has an incentive to tilt toward the arabs, at least on the surface. >> you're a peasant incentive to wish to see a settlement to the arab/israeli conflict. they certainly have no, no reason whatsoever to want to see hamas in power. and this employee till la was directed toward hamas, not the pa. >> [inaudible] >> that point is important to note. i don't think they know the difference, but -- yeah. >> i'm not huge advocate of turkey, but from what i understand turkey have security military forces, yeah? and we have a government which can -- and if i'm not mistaken, there's always can be a coup, military coup -- >> no. >> which can stop -- >> no, i don't think there's going to be a military coup. that's a question people have been asking for a long time, but i think the age is
and with the israelis' tactics and would very much like to impose upon the israelis some final settlement with the palestinians even if it's one that's more on the palestinians' terms. >> wait a second -- >> after all, europe, europe needs oil. >> uh-huh. >> and guess where a lot of the oil that -- [inaudible] europe has an incentive to tilt toward the arabs, at least on the surface. >> you're a peasant incentive to wish to see a settlement to the arab/israeli...
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staying out of contemporary affairs i will tell you at the time this occurred half a century ago, israeli foreign ministry said we have to keep this disposition of the ridges from orca to libya to iraq and all these countries. all these countries, balancing peace, justice and 3 enfranchisement in the middle east. there's no question people in this room work every day to argue for the return of property. leo and many others are looking the for the return of their property in poland and czechoslovakia and germany and parts of russia. there are many jews in the arab world who were left penniless. what do i mean? they took them out and pulled the rings out of their years and took bracelets from their arms and did everything possible to leave them penniless. why? because the arabs thought we don't have the manpower to kill all the jews. we don't wish to now. although they did have concentration camps in north africa. the manpower to do that. what we will do is create a demographic bond. we will flood a million jews into israel. they won't know what to do with them. they will be on the beach an
staying out of contemporary affairs i will tell you at the time this occurred half a century ago, israeli foreign ministry said we have to keep this disposition of the ridges from orca to libya to iraq and all these countries. all these countries, balancing peace, justice and 3 enfranchisement in the middle east. there's no question people in this room work every day to argue for the return of property. leo and many others are looking the for the return of their property in poland and...
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his book, "i shall not hate," tells the story of his three daughters killed by israeli forces during the 2009 raid on gaza. at 7 p.m. eastern time on monday, february 28th, go to booktv.org and click on the watch button under the events information in the featured programs section of the page. >> author most recently of a collection of essays exploring nuances of contemporary immigration and citizenship in the u.s. and europe, also the author of black faces black interests which received an 1994 woodrow wilson prize for best book publicists. for that book also won numerous other words. join the department in 2009 and is now the professor of government. now, professor of government and african and african-american star of -- studies. she also works in the kennedy school of government. she studies american politics, particularly the areas of emigration and educational policy. she also works on issues in public opinion and political culture. the co author most recently of the american dream and public schools published by oxford university press. also the co editor of the recent collect
his book, "i shall not hate," tells the story of his three daughters killed by israeli forces during the 2009 raid on gaza. at 7 p.m. eastern time on monday, february 28th, go to booktv.org and click on the watch button under the events information in the featured programs section of the page. >> author most recently of a collection of essays exploring nuances of contemporary immigration and citizenship in the u.s. and europe, also the author of black faces black interests which...
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we can give seed money to palestinians and israelis to have dairy farms together. if they disagree over borders and disagree over jerusalem the ball not compete. politics first and then the trade seals the deal. a final observation, and this will lead me into the closing comments about obama. those of us who study the policy tend to spend a lot of time worrying about international politics and not a lot of time worrying about domestic politics. i found in studying these cases of peace breaking out that good policy requires could politics. making peace with an enemy is as difficult domestically as it is diplomatically because whenever a leader reaches out to an adversary there are always opponents at home ready to unsheathe the sharp knife and come after those who talk to the enemy. in the case is that i found china and the soviet union, senegal, syria and egypt, it almost always failed because of domestic opponents of tom who undermined the effort by diplomats and leaders to bring off diplomatic. and that means that as the diplomacy proceeds leaders have to be very
we can give seed money to palestinians and israelis to have dairy farms together. if they disagree over borders and disagree over jerusalem the ball not compete. politics first and then the trade seals the deal. a final observation, and this will lead me into the closing comments about obama. those of us who study the policy tend to spend a lot of time worrying about international politics and not a lot of time worrying about domestic politics. i found in studying these cases of peace breaking...
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and israeli nuclear focused squarely on it. in other words, with or without a nuclear weapon they are contained. it can continue to dabble with violence surrogates in the israel muslim religious world, but it cannot pose a military threat to the united states. before moving to our so-called friends that me say that there is one serious threat to the united states, but only if we or the israelis strike first. thanks to more than 35 years of criminal negligence by the u.s. executive and legislative branches in the areas of border control and domestic security both enron and its lebanese hezbollah have created a large clandestine infrastructure in the continental united states, one which works with similar networks in canada, mexico, and the caribbean. too smart and afraid of u.s. military power to use this that were to strike first in america, but it is clearly designed to allow them to respond with violence here if attacked by the united states or by our israeli allies. now for saudi arabia and the other gulf arab tyrannies that
and israeli nuclear focused squarely on it. in other words, with or without a nuclear weapon they are contained. it can continue to dabble with violence surrogates in the israel muslim religious world, but it cannot pose a military threat to the united states. before moving to our so-called friends that me say that there is one serious threat to the united states, but only if we or the israelis strike first. thanks to more than 35 years of criminal negligence by the u.s. executive and...
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western and israeli national security interest in the muslim world are identical. america is now shedding blood and treasure in iraq because of the country's neoconservative and his really citizens and their journals. these men provoke a hubris war based on the idiot idea that a democratic state could be treated in muslim iraq the would be less than wholeheartedly anti-israeli. in doing so, the shield for the israelis and the security are permanently compromised from the moment the invasion of iraq began. moreover this isn't a fixable situation. because a potential iraq regime ambivalence toward israel exists only in the mind of pro-israel u.s. citizens. these are the men and women who at the days and are the most lethal enemy is. the cost of the unqualified u.s. support for israel has been measured only in dollars and political capital. and as such has been largely ignored by americans to the washington's medical waste of both. we are in a situation where the cost of support for israel is or soon will be measured in the lives of american children. that costa think
western and israeli national security interest in the muslim world are identical. america is now shedding blood and treasure in iraq because of the country's neoconservative and his really citizens and their journals. these men provoke a hubris war based on the idiot idea that a democratic state could be treated in muslim iraq the would be less than wholeheartedly anti-israeli. in doing so, the shield for the israelis and the security are permanently compromised from the moment the invasion of...
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in doing so, saddam hussein, a shield for the israelis and the israeli security, or permanently compromised from the moment the u.s.-led invasion of iraq began. moreover, this is not a fixable situation. because a potentially -- the cause a potential iraq regime ambivalent towards israel exists only in the minds of pro-israel u.s. citizens, these are the men and women who at the day's end our israel's most lethal enemies. the cost of the unqualified u.s. support for israel long has been measured only in dollars and political capital. and as such has been largely ignored by americans and ignored to washington's wasteful. but we are now in a situation where the cost of support for israel is or soon will be measured in the lives of american parents children. that cost i think will quickly become obvious, abhorrent, and utterly unacceptable to those parents. fourth, finally, and i think most importantly, the u.s. government and its european allies must stop trying to spread democracy abroad by military, financial, humanitarian or political intervention. no young american man or woman should die
in doing so, saddam hussein, a shield for the israelis and the israeli security, or permanently compromised from the moment the u.s.-led invasion of iraq began. moreover, this is not a fixable situation. because a potentially -- the cause a potential iraq regime ambivalent towards israel exists only in the minds of pro-israel u.s. citizens, these are the men and women who at the day's end our israel's most lethal enemies. the cost of the unqualified u.s. support for israel long has been...
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i wanted to let you know he was a veer racial leader, and he could be talk about the causes of israeli and the war. he had become an intellectual. because he stopped studying chess and started studying all of the other things. it was very interesting. my specific approach in the book was to show very specifically how bobby came good. if you read this book, will you become good? i don't know about that. but possibly it will help. it may inspire you. so that's good. you are not going to learn the specific openings because there are no openings here, there are no diagrams and games here. but it may inspire you to become good like he did. if i wanted to show that, and i think i have. the hours of practice, how he did it, how he analyze it had, so forth. i also showed the difficulties he had. he came from a poor family. his mother was i wouldn't say a vagrant, but he was -- when bobby was born, she was homeless. and they had to live in a hospice. then they lived in a trailer and finally moved to manhattan, and finally to brooklyn in a small little, you know, walkup apartment for $56 a month
i wanted to let you know he was a veer racial leader, and he could be talk about the causes of israeli and the war. he had become an intellectual. because he stopped studying chess and started studying all of the other things. it was very interesting. my specific approach in the book was to show very specifically how bobby came good. if you read this book, will you become good? i don't know about that. but possibly it will help. it may inspire you. so that's good. you are not going to learn the...
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izzo been abu laois calls for an end to the bloodshed between israelis and palestinians. coming up emily lambert senior writer for "forbes" magazine examines the history and purpose of the order trade mercantile exchange and other futures markets. she speaks said afterward mack bookstore in chekhov though. it is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> i am much more comfortable interviewing people that i am speaking, so i am sure that will come up very quickly by thank you for coming. thank you to beverly for having us abandoned for hosting it. this just happens to be my favorite bookstore. i have like many a book here and i love coming here and of course it turns out that beverly has a connection to this industry because in chicago, who doesn't? i started talking to her and she said oakley guess my uncle grew up with leo and that i
izzo been abu laois calls for an end to the bloodshed between israelis and palestinians. coming up emily lambert senior writer for "forbes" magazine examines the history and purpose of the order trade mercantile exchange and other futures markets. she speaks said afterward mack bookstore in chekhov though. it is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> i am much more comfortable interviewing people that i am speaking, so i am sure that will come up very quickly by thank you for coming....
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., a palestinian doctor argues for an end to the bloodshed between the israelis and palestinians. his book tells the story of his three daughters who were killed by israeli forces during the 2009 raid on gaza. at 7 p.m. eastern time on monday, february 28th, go to booktv.org and click on the watch button under the events information in the featured programs section of the page. >> up next, legal journalist kim eisler profiles the five partners of the washington, d.c. law firm williams and connolly. the author reports on the inside-the-beltway connections of the firm from their defense of president bill clinton to their representation of "the washington post." >> this is a book which is not just about washington, not just about a single washington law firm, but about -- it's sort of the culmination of everything that i learned from writing about lawyers and law firms back, back in the day. and that when you're a newspaper reporter, you learn early on that underneath every decision and behind every, almost behind every length and every political thing that happens from the smallest
., a palestinian doctor argues for an end to the bloodshed between the israelis and palestinians. his book tells the story of his three daughters who were killed by israeli forces during the 2009 raid on gaza. at 7 p.m. eastern time on monday, february 28th, go to booktv.org and click on the watch button under the events information in the featured programs section of the page. >> up next, legal journalist kim eisler profiles the five partners of the washington, d.c. law firm williams and...
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pal stint doctor ab lair argues for an end between the blood shed between israelis and palestinians. his book, "i shall not hate," tells the story of the murder of his three daughters. at 3 p.m. eastern time on monday, february 28th, go to booktv.org and click on the watch button under the events information on the featured programs section of the page. >> host: well, there's a new online enterprise just starting up, and it's called the washington independent review of books. david stewart is the president of this organization. mr. stewart, what is your organization? >> guest: well, it's a group of writers and editors and similarly-minded people in the, mostly in the d.c. area who are very dismayed by the. shriveling of book review space and sort of the standard media. a lot of book review sections have been folded, they've shrunk, and it's just harder to find information about what's going on in the world of books these days, coverage of the publishing industry has shrunk. so we decided to try to do something ourselves. this is really sort of from the old judy garland/mickey rooney
pal stint doctor ab lair argues for an end between the blood shed between israelis and palestinians. his book, "i shall not hate," tells the story of the murder of his three daughters. at 3 p.m. eastern time on monday, february 28th, go to booktv.org and click on the watch button under the events information on the featured programs section of the page. >> host: well, there's a new online enterprise just starting up, and it's called the washington independent review of books....
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we can give seed money to palestinians and israelis to have dairy farms together, but if they disagree over borders and disagree over jerusalem they will not be peace. politics first and then the trade seals the deal. a final observation, and this will lead me into the closing comments about obama. making peace with an enemy is as difficult domestically as it is diplomatically because whenever a leader reaches out to an adversary there are always components of combat ready to unsheathe the sharp knife and, after those to talk to the enemy. in the case is that i have found , china and the soviet union, san miguel, syria and egypt, it almost always failed because of domestic opponents of tom who undermined the effort by diplomats and leaders to bring off diplomatic. and that means that as the diplomacy of proceeds leaders have to be very careful to make sure that they have the domestic support at home. otherwise you may get mr. a and b striking a deal, but as an as they are gone there is no domestic constituency to keep the peace, the french ship moving forward. let me conclude by saying
we can give seed money to palestinians and israelis to have dairy farms together, but if they disagree over borders and disagree over jerusalem they will not be peace. politics first and then the trade seals the deal. a final observation, and this will lead me into the closing comments about obama. making peace with an enemy is as difficult domestically as it is diplomatically because whenever a leader reaches out to an adversary there are always components of combat ready to unsheathe the...
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israelis policy is that britain should maintain the ottoman empire because it would act as keeping the russians from coming through the streets of the darden now and through the mediterranean sea that the british did not want. so the british to profiles wanted them to return to the old policy and also more liberal british turkophile who believed the ottomans government was more progressive and liberal government and more suitable than the czar russia which was most tyrannical the muslims and the turkophile as did have some influence and organize political pressure groups and gritted major members of parliaments from the house of commons and lords and also businessmen who had interest throughout the ottoman empire formed in not be insignificant pressure group the anglo-american in the society and then were the easterners they were men in the british government and had come to the conclusion that britain and france would never defeat germany on the western front. that was a killing field. no way to victory by just. a back door must be found. that was located in turkey it could be kicked
israelis policy is that britain should maintain the ottoman empire because it would act as keeping the russians from coming through the streets of the darden now and through the mediterranean sea that the british did not want. so the british to profiles wanted them to return to the old policy and also more liberal british turkophile who believed the ottomans government was more progressive and liberal government and more suitable than the czar russia which was most tyrannical the muslims and...
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britain's traditional policy, one that had been shaped by the great british conservative leader benjamin israeli who, by the way, had been born jewish although he was baptized at age, i think, 12 or something, 11 or something. anyway, his policy had been that britain should maintain the ottoman empire because it would act as a bulwark, it would keep the russians from ever coming through the straits of the dardanelles and down into the mediterranean sea which the british didn't want. so there were british turkophiles who wanted great britain to return to the old policy. there were, also, more liberal british turkophiles who believed that the ottoman government for all its faults and drawbacks was a more progressive and liberal government and a more suitable ally for great britain than tsarist russia which, of course, was the most tyrannical and backward of all the great powers. so british muslims, british turkophiles. the turkophiles did have some influence. they organized pressure groups, they recruited important members of parliament from all the parties and members of both houses, commons and
britain's traditional policy, one that had been shaped by the great british conservative leader benjamin israeli who, by the way, had been born jewish although he was baptized at age, i think, 12 or something, 11 or something. anyway, his policy had been that britain should maintain the ottoman empire because it would act as a bulwark, it would keep the russians from ever coming through the straits of the dardanelles and down into the mediterranean sea which the british didn't want. so there...
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they would be an israeli-palestinian settlement. pat toomey doesn't seem like a short turn passage. >> guest: it isn't. if you could basically -- you can immediate rate. >> host: let me start back -- step back. talk about you and your writing. tell me for example, how long did it take you to write this book? >> guest: i signed a contract at the end of 2004 and then i did -- >> host: that's a long book. the longest book process for the longest war transit it was going to be called the longest book. writing, i didn't get a book called osama bin laden. i had a two book deal and i turn into a much bigger project. if i hadn't ridden osama bin laden i know i couldn't have written this book because it involved me looking at every primary source. anything his companions in arms. >> host: i would say that's a great resource. the chapter on jihadism, i keep referring to because it's like a one stop guide. >> guest: but the book did not sell particularly will. it was a useful a specialist like yourself. this book is more for the general reader
they would be an israeli-palestinian settlement. pat toomey doesn't seem like a short turn passage. >> guest: it isn't. if you could basically -- you can immediate rate. >> host: let me start back -- step back. talk about you and your writing. tell me for example, how long did it take you to write this book? >> guest: i signed a contract at the end of 2004 and then i did -- >> host: that's a long book. the longest book process for the longest war transit it was going to...
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that's the israelis. i mean, you know their style and the way they deal with things. you know what they're going to say when they're asked if they did it. the russians, for example, sometimes when they kill somebody they don't really hide it. that's part of the point. they are trying to let people know, hey, we are serious. so you can find out what intelligence organizations are like including the american intelligence organizations how they think and operate. and it's also true i feel of the indians in the 1870s. there's a -- i don't want to underestimate the gap between us and them, the gulf, the difficulty of crossing that and really understand what they were like. but you can if you do the work, pay attention and emerge herself in that world, you begin -- you stop talking about it as if it were something you had studied and learned in school. and you start talking and thinking about it as if it were something you had experienced. so if you did ask me, you know, what kind of a man was red cloud, who is one of the principal rivals of crazy horse, and he was the lead
that's the israelis. i mean, you know their style and the way they deal with things. you know what they're going to say when they're asked if they did it. the russians, for example, sometimes when they kill somebody they don't really hide it. that's part of the point. they are trying to let people know, hey, we are serious. so you can find out what intelligence organizations are like including the american intelligence organizations how they think and operate. and it's also true i feel of the...
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. >> jonathan schneer talks about the balfour declaration which split historic palestine between israelis and palestinians and create one of the longest-running conflicts in modern history. he speaks at the jimmy carter library and museum in atlanta. this is just over an hour. specs on going to tell you about this book that i've just written, it's about the balfour declaration. the balfour declaration was published, or was made -- was written and given to the cabinet and accepted by the british cabinet on the second of november, 1917. in the balfour declaration, great britain promise to support establishment of a home, a national home for the jews and palestine. and as jackie said, today the balfour declaration is seen by some as the foundation stone of modern israel, and, therefore, something to be celebrated. it is seen by others as the first step in arab disposition and misery, and, therefore, something to be deported. but everybody, everybody has viewed it as an inevitable byproduct of a growing anglo zionist intimacy during world war i. and every previous book, to my knowledge, about
. >> jonathan schneer talks about the balfour declaration which split historic palestine between israelis and palestinians and create one of the longest-running conflicts in modern history. he speaks at the jimmy carter library and museum in atlanta. this is just over an hour. specs on going to tell you about this book that i've just written, it's about the balfour declaration. the balfour declaration was published, or was made -- was written and given to the cabinet and accepted by the...
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the three balances of power in that region, the arab-israeli, iran-iraqi and the indo-pakistani. each one of them have been destabilized of the ten years. in the arab-israeli relationships, barring some dramatic change of egypt over time, israel is so dominant that it can create new realities on the ground and there is indifference to what the united states releases very often. in afghanistan, the united states is asking pakistan to do things to create stability that we can pakistan that should create independent regional power in india that the united states may not appreciate. and of the course the invasion of iraq to destroy the power creating what is the most immediate issue which is for getting nuclear weapons iran is the dominant conventional military force in the region if the united states is there the united states has in its policy the withdraw from iraq, iran filling the vacuum is extremely high. that in turn to the qtr changes the balance of power or the political dynamic in the arabian peninsula. they are vitally important decisions to be made. on the one hand, the u
the three balances of power in that region, the arab-israeli, iran-iraqi and the indo-pakistani. each one of them have been destabilized of the ten years. in the arab-israeli relationships, barring some dramatic change of egypt over time, israel is so dominant that it can create new realities on the ground and there is indifference to what the united states releases very often. in afghanistan, the united states is asking pakistan to do things to create stability that we can pakistan that should...
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each of them had destabilized of the ten years and the arab-israeli relationship barring some dramatic change in egypt over time israel is so dominant that it can create new realities on the ground and is in different to what the united states says very often. in afghanistan, the united states is asking pakistan to do something that create instability week in pakistan that potentially create the independent regional power in india that the united states cannot appreciate in the long run, and of course iraq has destroyed the iran iraq has the most immediate issue which is for getting the nuclear weapons iran is the dominant conventional military force if the united states is there. the united states has its policy, but the potential for iran is extremely high and that changes the balance of power or the political dynamic in the arabian peninsula. they are vitally important decisions to be made. so on the one hand, the united states must renounce its policy to deal with issues like russia, to deal with china and so one of the same time the united states can simply withdraw. it doesn't ha
each of them had destabilized of the ten years and the arab-israeli relationship barring some dramatic change in egypt over time israel is so dominant that it can create new realities on the ground and is in different to what the united states says very often. in afghanistan, the united states is asking pakistan to do something that create instability week in pakistan that potentially create the independent regional power in india that the united states cannot appreciate in the long run, and of...
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the israeli, iraqi and pakistani. the area's earlier relationships, borrowing -- barring a change in egypt overtime, israel is so dominant it can create new realities on the ground and is indifferent to what the united states says. in afghanistan, the united states is asking pakistan to do things that create instability, that weaken pakistan, that potentially create an independent regional power in india that the united states may not appreciate in the long run. , and iraq has destroyed the balance of power creating what is the most immediate issue that forgetting nuclear weapons, iran is the dominant military force in the region if the united states isn't there. the united states has its policy to withdrawal from iraq, the potential for iran feel filling the -- filling the vacuum is high and that changes the balance of power or at least the political dynamic in the arabian peninsula. there are visitly important decisions to be made. the united states must rebalance global policy to deal with issues like russia, china
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the arab-israeli, the iraqi and the pakistani. each one of them have deed stabilize -- have destabilized over the last 10 years. israel is so dominant that it creates new realities on the ground. there's a difference to what the united states release is very often. in afghanistan, the united states is asking pakistan to do things that creates instability, that will weaken pakistan, that potentially creates an independent regional power in india that the united states may not appreciate in the long run. and, of course, the invasion of iraq has destroyed the iran-iraq balance apparently what is the most immediate issue which is forgetting nuclear weapons, iran is the dominant conventional military force in the region if the united states isn't there. the united states has its policy to withdraw from iraq, potential for iran to attack is extremely high. that in turn changes the balance of power, or at least the political dynamic in the arabian peninsula. they are vitally important decisions to be made, so if the one hand the united s
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that's, until this day, we identify the arab-israeli conflict as the israeli people wanting to be free versus the palestine problem. at best, it's a problem to be solved, but not real people to care about and identify with. i think if you ask people to think of israel, they can think of people. think of palestinians, they can't think of people or people like us. >> host: they have not been sufficiently marketed in this country. >> guest: no. part is a palestinian problem and an arab problem, but at this point it doesn't matter whose fault it is. we have a job to do. we are too invested in that region, too many lives at stake in that reason, too much at stake, and we extended too much political capital. we have to now, if the arabs are not going to sell, we have to go over and do the learning ourselves. >> host: taking a break in a minute, so i won't get too deep into u.s. policy. we'll get into that soon. tell me briefly how you became who you are. you're a professional arab. you're a christian. you were born in this country. why this? how did this become your mission? life? >> you kno
that's, until this day, we identify the arab-israeli conflict as the israeli people wanting to be free versus the palestine problem. at best, it's a problem to be solved, but not real people to care about and identify with. i think if you ask people to think of israel, they can think of people. think of palestinians, they can't think of people or people like us. >> host: they have not been sufficiently marketed in this country. >> guest: no. part is a palestinian problem and an arab...
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i was with this israeli woman. >> host: they didn't recognize you? >> guest: they didn't recognize me. and at one very interesting, very, very tense moment in the evening -- tense for me, because, you know, i had been close to the president a few minutes before, and now i'm sitting at a table with his top aides. frankly, i was wondering when the hell the arkansas state police were going to come and carry me out, the secret service or something like that. so i'm sitting there, and i'm listening to all this blah coming from the dais and the greatest president ever, our last elected president and all of this kind of nonsense. and i was getting a little giddy by it all. and this woman sitting next to me was from dublin. dublin, ireland. and she and i knew various people. she didn't know who i was, but she -- and so she asked me, where do you come from? i said, well, i'm from washington. and she said, oh, you're from washington. that is the way most of these people -- they let it go at that. but this irish woman insisted on going further. and she said, um
i was with this israeli woman. >> host: they didn't recognize you? >> guest: they didn't recognize me. and at one very interesting, very, very tense moment in the evening -- tense for me, because, you know, i had been close to the president a few minutes before, and now i'm sitting at a table with his top aides. frankly, i was wondering when the hell the arkansas state police were going to come and carry me out, the secret service or something like that. so i'm sitting there, and...
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israelis still have the more number of votes because many of the arabs, a lot of christians and muslims are not yet old enough to vote. but it's obvious in the future there'll be a majority live anything that one state who are not jews. so israel will have to make a choice then of persecuting the palestinians so they can't vote or permitting a vote where the jews might be in the minority. where they would no longer have control of the whole government. and that's something that nobody wants. so what we want is a two-state solution with israel living in its present country with modification of the borders and the palestinians living in their country alongside, both deeply committed with international supervision to live in peace with each other. >> mr. president, you mentioned something that bears repeating, and that is that you had the best legislative battle average among modern presidents with the exception of lyndon johnson. >> yes. >> you also talked about the divisions in washington. >> yes. >> can they be repaired, in your view. and if so, how? >> i don't know. i think one encoura
israelis still have the more number of votes because many of the arabs, a lot of christians and muslims are not yet old enough to vote. but it's obvious in the future there'll be a majority live anything that one state who are not jews. so israel will have to make a choice then of persecuting the palestinians so they can't vote or permitting a vote where the jews might be in the minority. where they would no longer have control of the whole government. and that's something that nobody wants. so...
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>> [inaudible] for example, one of the issues that i personally have felt, the israeli/palestinian issue. >> yeah. >> it gets muddled a lot. in order for me to find proper news, i had to delve into other resources to get the palestinian opinion properly. >> you are huh. >> npr, i feel as if it's -- >> yeah. we could talk about this for the 40 years in which we've been covering middle east affairs. all i can do is quote to you from thomas friedman who said his experience in the middle east was whichever side you talked to said to you you report it my way, or you die. i mean, that's how hard it is really. i don't mean to be glib about this, but that's how difficult it is to report that story and please everybody who's listening to you or reading you. it's just, it's just really, really hard to do. you make your darnedest effort to do it. >> [inaudible] >> i see a hand up there. >> [inaudible] >> and there's one there. okay. i saw -- well, right there. right there, i guess. i saw a hand right in the middle. okay, right there. >> along the same line i also am an avid fan. sometimes i feel li
>> [inaudible] for example, one of the issues that i personally have felt, the israeli/palestinian issue. >> yeah. >> it gets muddled a lot. in order for me to find proper news, i had to delve into other resources to get the palestinian opinion properly. >> you are huh. >> npr, i feel as if it's -- >> yeah. we could talk about this for the 40 years in which we've been covering middle east affairs. all i can do is quote to you from thomas friedman who said his...
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mubarak previously had. 30 years has built a lot of understanding and trust between the egyptian and israeli militaries. and there is little inclination to change that status. there's little inclination to do away with the positive benefits that the egyptians have seen from the peace treaty. and as you've seen the supreme court council has specifically reaffirmed egypt's commitments to the international treaties. when it was saying that, it was speaking particularly about the treaty to israel. on another issue, questions have been raised about u.s. military assistance and influence with egypt. graeme, i'm certain, will comment much further. i'd like to underline the positive benefits of civil military relations, respect for democracy, human rights, are much more likely to have been the product of long exposure by a large number of egyptian officers to our ideas rather than as a result of a few recent phone calls. military assistance provides long-term results. perhaps not quite so much in the short term. just for those who want to think about what has egypt done for us lately? in terms of mi
mubarak previously had. 30 years has built a lot of understanding and trust between the egyptian and israeli militaries. and there is little inclination to change that status. there's little inclination to do away with the positive benefits that the egyptians have seen from the peace treaty. and as you've seen the supreme court council has specifically reaffirmed egypt's commitments to the international treaties. when it was saying that, it was speaking particularly about the treaty to israel....
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the palestinian situation, the israeli-palestinian situation, i think is unsustainable. i know that nadia will talk more about that, so i will not talk much about it, but i do think that the obama administration doesn't know where to go with that issue right now. we've seen several chapters of frankly failed efforts on the palestine issue, and i'm not sure they have a clear plan where to go with it now. also, unfortunately, you know, they are dealing with an israeli government that has showed really no interest i think in reaching an agreement with the palestinians and now seems to look at regional events as a reason to do less rather than more about that. regarding iran, i think we have brought some time with the effective sanctions and so forth, but the issue will be back. i don't agree, by the way, necessarily with the assessment that these changes that we see going on in the region and egypt and so forth are going to tilt the regional balance in the favor of iran. i think the united states needs to do what it can going forward to encourage successful transitions to d
the palestinian situation, the israeli-palestinian situation, i think is unsustainable. i know that nadia will talk more about that, so i will not talk much about it, but i do think that the obama administration doesn't know where to go with that issue right now. we've seen several chapters of frankly failed efforts on the palestine issue, and i'm not sure they have a clear plan where to go with it now. also, unfortunately, you know, they are dealing with an israeli government that has showed...
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the israelis don't care for it and iran doesn't care for it. >> i did to disagree. at the recent npt review conference in new york that composition took french position and was agreed to buy all of the countries that signed the npt and there is a decision by that group told a conference in 2012 on the issue. now, the peace five plus one has issued sanctions which the whole world community has supported, but i don't think that will get us anywhere. i would rather have us concentrate on the zone free weapons of mass destruction and add to it the two reasons. one for the rewards come for the countries that joined giving them a technical and economic support in their civilian nuclear development, and the nuclear security umbrella. the other one a sanctions regime, both of them to be guaranteed by the permanent members of the security council and the sanctions regime would have diplomatic and economic sanctions but also include a military sanction clause so the country that doesn't join weapons of mass destruction would have to face potential military sanctions. >> okay.
the israelis don't care for it and iran doesn't care for it. >> i did to disagree. at the recent npt review conference in new york that composition took french position and was agreed to buy all of the countries that signed the npt and there is a decision by that group told a conference in 2012 on the issue. now, the peace five plus one has issued sanctions which the whole world community has supported, but i don't think that will get us anywhere. i would rather have us concentrate on the...
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the palestinian situation, the israeli-palestinian situation, i think is unsustainable. i know that nadia will talk more about that, so i will not talk much about it, but i do think that the obama administration doesn't know where to go with that issue right now. we've seen several chapters of frankly failed efforts on the palestine issue, and i'm not sure they have a clear plan where to go with it now. also, unfortunately, you know, they are dealing with an israeli government that has showed really no interest i think in reaching an agreement with the palestinians and now seems to look at regional events as a reason to do less rather than more about that. regarding iran, i think we have brought some time with the effective sanctions and so forth, but the issue will be back. i don't agree, by the way, necessarily with the assessment that these changes that we see going on in the region and egypt and so forth are going to tilt the regional balance in the favor of iran. i think the united states needs to do what it can going forward to encourage successful transitions to d
the palestinian situation, the israeli-palestinian situation, i think is unsustainable. i know that nadia will talk more about that, so i will not talk much about it, but i do think that the obama administration doesn't know where to go with that issue right now. we've seen several chapters of frankly failed efforts on the palestine issue, and i'm not sure they have a clear plan where to go with it now. also, unfortunately, you know, they are dealing with an israeli government that has showed...
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that is par for the course because the israelis always like to rough up any british foreign secretary and it didn't work, let me say. we then -- i was very conscious of the vulnerable position the president of iran is in. it is not a dictatorship. it is not a democracy. it is a very complex mix of theocracy and semi democracy. much more opaque than the american system. my judgment and our judgment was this was the best hope we had of improving relations. we're trying to get iran in from the cold. you had the decision by president bush to include iran in the axis of the full speech. when i read president bush's speech there was no reflection on what it did for iran and all and there should have been because this was a major foreign policy blunder by the united states. president hurt me significantly was embittered by that and lead to people saying that is what you get for trying to reach out to the americans. it is a long-term consequence. during late 2002 we got wind from the ncr i, which is a terrorist organization disclosing details about iran's nuclear program. and that led to the
that is par for the course because the israelis always like to rough up any british foreign secretary and it didn't work, let me say. we then -- i was very conscious of the vulnerable position the president of iran is in. it is not a dictatorship. it is not a democracy. it is a very complex mix of theocracy and semi democracy. much more opaque than the american system. my judgment and our judgment was this was the best hope we had of improving relations. we're trying to get iran in from the...
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this has certainly nourished the authoritarian regimes and the conservative elements in western and israeli academia and policymaking. according to proponents of this school the security apparatus is the last bulwark against islamic theocracy. if anything the recent events into these and egypt exposed limitations of this viewpoint. with consternation, on the part of commentators, may provide social and political cohesion for a mass protest movement in the arab world. this consternation comes with the scholars who rushed to the egyptian revolt. in the lens of the arrest and media, it seems to me, the moment is a real to pray, the way they were reported. automatic reflex, he was returned to the category of a muslim who by definition according to the news report was mobilized by appeals to his or her religion but it bears noting this perception was among the first to be revised as the protests wore on and their pluralistic profile came to the floor. one centss that something akin will take place at the level of scholarship. the second school is proposed for neil marxist historians for home sha
this has certainly nourished the authoritarian regimes and the conservative elements in western and israeli academia and policymaking. according to proponents of this school the security apparatus is the last bulwark against islamic theocracy. if anything the recent events into these and egypt exposed limitations of this viewpoint. with consternation, on the part of commentators, may provide social and political cohesion for a mass protest movement in the arab world. this consternation comes...
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i think that if the palestinians would negotiate with the israelis that the settlement issue and other issues would be taken care of. i would hope that if that happens that the administration will strongly enforce and veto such a resolution as we have in the past, and i believe the administration so far has not yet unequivocal the indicated that it would do so. so i would like to ask you is that a fact, and if it is, i would strongly urge the administration to veto this resolution of the security council if it comes up. >> thank you. first, by coming to the first point on the recognitions, we have made very clear to a lot of countries including in the region that you talked about that we now have had and continue to have responsibility for that we think this is counterproductive. i'm disappointed frankly that we haven't had more success, but it has been our engagement at the highest level with each of the government. i myself have had several of those conversations, so our position is well known on that. with respect to the security council, we have made very clear we do not think the
i think that if the palestinians would negotiate with the israelis that the settlement issue and other issues would be taken care of. i would hope that if that happens that the administration will strongly enforce and veto such a resolution as we have in the past, and i believe the administration so far has not yet unequivocal the indicated that it would do so. so i would like to ask you is that a fact, and if it is, i would strongly urge the administration to veto this resolution of the...
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how committed is it to the egyptian and israeli peace agreement? >> that is our question to answer, madam chairman, because of the factors i have lined about the heterogeneous of the muslim brotherhood. but would assess that they are probably not in favor of the treaty. that, i think, will be one voice in the emerging political mill you in egypt since they have indicated that they want to form a political party. that will be one voice. i think it is also worthy to note that the staff, the supreme council of the armed forces has reaffirmed its commitment -- actually all treaty commitments and in particular the egypt israel pastry. >> what to the best of the intelligence community's knowledge is the position of the muslim brotherhood on stopping weapons smuggling into gaza. >> again, i don't know that there is as stated position of the moslem brotherhood on this issue. i would surmise there are probably supportive. again, it's hard to at this .. to a specific agenda of the muslim brotherhood as a group. >> what is its position with respect or relatio
how committed is it to the egyptian and israeli peace agreement? >> that is our question to answer, madam chairman, because of the factors i have lined about the heterogeneous of the muslim brotherhood. but would assess that they are probably not in favor of the treaty. that, i think, will be one voice in the emerging political mill you in egypt since they have indicated that they want to form a political party. that will be one voice. i think it is also worthy to note that the staff, the...
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iranians have done is raised concern about the whole stability or instability and concern about the israeli program for the nuclear program were there outside the whole machine. they talk about the insecurity and instability. he raises concern about domestic policies in different countries and the depression of the republic. that issue is not susceptible in any way for any use of force. if you do that, that would go for a crash course. if you're not going for nuclear weapons today, it was the force of all of the people around the world. so all the solutions are to bring it down. and it doesn't have -- it doesn't need to direct two of more interest. i mean, do you have what you and i call soft power in all the countries around it and in the city of lebanon and afghanistan. for the nuclear -- as i said, the nuclear program is sending unmanned and manned is to ensure that they are a major player that you have to contend with. i'm not sure that they have developed a concern about this, but i think the concern is somewhat overstated and i also think the solution is not using extension of force,
iranians have done is raised concern about the whole stability or instability and concern about the israeli program for the nuclear program were there outside the whole machine. they talk about the insecurity and instability. he raises concern about domestic policies in different countries and the depression of the republic. that issue is not susceptible in any way for any use of force. if you do that, that would go for a crash course. if you're not going for nuclear weapons today, it was the...